[INTRO - slow, droning] [drone of distorted guitars rising from silence] [heartbeat-like kick drum, sparse and heavy] [feedback swells, building tension] we were stars once we were dust and light we knew the void we knew the night then we built walls around the flame and forgot the name of our own name [PRE-CHORUS] [faster tom fills, tension mounting] [fear became the tool we used] [fear became the habit too] [CHORUS] we are the forgetting we are the lost we traded the cosmos for the cost of a little safety of a little warm now we weather this psychological storm [INTERLUDE] [guitar feedback, slow bass line] [wind-like synth texture] [sparse cymbal crashes] [VERSE 2] the old books knew the old books saw clinging is the root of it all greed and ego power and lack every holy word a warning track [PRE-CHORUS] [drums build, double kick emerges] [they called it sin] [but it was malware within] [CHORUS] we are the forgetting we are the lost we traded the cosmos for the cost of a little safety of a little warm now we weather this psychological storm [SOLO SECTION] [extended guitar solo, melancholic and heavy] [slow, wailing bends] [harmonic feedback layers] [drums half-time, spacious] [solo builds to peak, then drops to near silence] [BREAKDOWN] [drop to clean tone, very slow tempo] [minimal instrumentation] who am i who am i who do they think who do they think who am i who am i who do they think who do they think [BUILD-UP] [gradual return of distortion] [drums slowly re-enter] [layered guitars stacking] [FINAL CHORUS] we are the forgetting we are the lost we traded the cosmos for the cost we are the noise we are the scroll we traded being for a role we are the costume we are the score we don't know what we're living for [OUTRO] [return to intro drone] [guitars fade to feedback] [heartbeat kick slows, stops] [silence]
